Category: Poems for Grownups

He was late for school once again Miss Brown, his teacher, asked him why. “It’s a little hard to explain,” “But if you want me to, I’ll try. It’s all because of Pa’s hound, Blue. He has a nose that’s cold as ice, He likes to sniff on everyone, Sometimes, in places not so nice.” […]

I read a poem The other day, It didn’t rhyme, To my dismay. You ask me how Was one to know It was a poem? They told me so. Scribed in lines Both crude and terse, They said that it Was called free verse. Why it was verse Was hard to see But one could […]

So many children Killed in schools. So many students Break the rules. The Devil’s minions In charge there With Devil’s dress And colored hair. With Devil’s jewelry On cloaks of black They smoke their weed And shoot their crack. I asked, “Dear God, Why let this be?” He said, “School doors Are closed to me.”

Everybody messes with me They think it’s some kind of a game. They laugh and ask me why I limp Because they know that I’m not lame. They know it’s ’cause I wear one shoe, They all think I lost the other. And they are always scolding me They remind me of my mother. If […]

She had grown up in a war zone, An adult though only five. Her family killed around her, How had she remained alive? Then one day a soldier found her, Such a sad and lonely waif. So he brought her to the mission Where he knew that she’d be safe. But the spark of life […]